Individual Nurse Needs
Many of our team trips require follow-up appointments. Many of the organizations we visit are too busy and too strap for cash to make these appointments happen. We like to leave a nurse (or two) on-site to help facilitate this follow-up. We are also partnered with a few organizations in need of an individual nurse to help for a month or three at a time. The needs are posted below, and are generally “on-going” in nature-meaning volunteers can start within 4-5 months of applying.
Refugee Health Alliance, Tijuana Mexico (4-16 weeks)
This organization is working with migrants at the US/Mexico border. They have two clinics that are opened Monday to Friday and multiple shelters they visit on the weekends all of which provide medical care to this vulnerable population. As a volunteer you would be augmenting the staff at this clinic by acting as a clinic nurse; triaging, taking vital signs, providing patient education, dressing wounds, etc. You have the option of helping at their weekend outreach or having the weekend to yourself. As clinic charting and patient education are in Spanish (and you will be expected to perform these duties) a moderate level of Spanish is required.
Cost: Free for > 1 month
Included:
4 weeks or more: Shared accommodation at the midwifery house/clinic. If interested in Airbnb accommodation please let us know in your email and we can quote you the price adjustment. Medical supplies to take to the clinic
Not Included: Airfare, any required covid testing on arrival or depature, passport fees, medical health or evacuation insurance, trip insurance, meals, transport over $50/week. **Please note transport stipend is not included for those staying on the clinic grounds.
Start Date: Anytime after January 1st, 2025. Filled until that time.
Feeding Dreams, Siem Reap Cambodia (>4 weeks)- PAUSED
This organization provides a hot meal and education to the children in Siem Reap, Cambodia. We have a team of nurses visiting this school in October 2019, and will obtain assessment data on over 700 children. While healthcare is free to these children the follow-up is very time consuming, and often the parents do not have the time or resources to take their children to the providers. This is where you would come in! We have partnered with free providers, and others that have offered their services at a discount to us, but we need someone to help take the data and connect the identified children to the care they so desperately need! To learn more about the organization please visit: www.feedingdreamscambodia.org
Cost: $800 USD for 4 weeks, $1400 8 weeks, $2700 12 weeks
Includes: Accommodation with a/c and wifi, transport to and from the airport and accommodation and school, medical and education supplies for the trip, translator
Not included: Airfare, Meals, Visa, Insurance (health, evacuation) transport around the city, weekend excursions at your leisure
Start Date: This is paused due to the restructuring of the host organization. We will post the potential start date option once this opportunity resumes
WAHEF, Cape Coast Ghana (4-12 weeks)
This organization is partnered with the national health service as well as many schools and villages around Cape Coast. As a volunteer you will be responsible for performing wellness checks, tending to acute health needs, health education at the schools, triaging children for care with local providers with the potential to also help improve Ghana’s public healthcare.
Cost: $1200 USD for 4 weeks, $1500 for 6 weeks, $1800 for 8 weeks
Includes: Accommodation with a host family and 3 meals a day, transport to and from Accra, daily transport to villages, medical education and supplies for the trip, cost of providing meds, care, and supplies once in the country.
Not included: Flight, any required covid testing, visa fees, medical and evac insurance for volunteer, any vaccines required for travel
Start Date: This is an ongoing opportunity. Please note we will not send a volunteer here during national holidays or school breaks as the children won’t be in school. Currently filling positions to begin 8/2024 or later.
**Updated 4/2024
PAAJAF, Gbawe Ghana (4-8 weeks)- PAUSED
This school provides over 90 children with much needed educational skills so that at a very young age they begin to gain the knowledge needed for a vocational career. As a nurse volunteer you would plan a deworming program for all the children, help register them with the NHIS on a school registration day, and provide free health physical screenings as well as education to the children, families, and staff. If you are there long enough you would then be able to begin taking them to the local providers we have teamed up with to provide care! Ideally this would be done in 4-6 weeks time, but we will also accept 2 week volunteers.
Cost: $300 for 1 month, $500 2 months + (accommodation, see list below, is in addition to cost listed above)
Includes: Accommodation with a/c near clinic site. Transport to and from the airport, transport to and from site, medical and education supplies for the trip, cost of providing meds and supplies once in the country.
Accommodation: (all have wifi and a/c)
2 star hotel: $1,500/ 1 month
3 star hotel: $ 1,850/ 1 month
4 star hotel: $3,800/ 1 month
Not included: Flight, Meals, Visa fees, weekend excursions at your leisure
Start Date: This opportunity is paused due to a change in leadership.
**All funds can be raised through a facebook fundraiser and are tax deductible
Bahay Tuluyan, -PAUSED-
This organization gives the street children of Manila a place to go and provides them with much needed education. While many of these kids should be in school the cycle of poverty often prevents that. There are a myriad of kids accessing this shelter and they need for a nurse to not only assess the children, but obtain parental consent to take them to get the free medical/dental care that they need. Bahay Tuluyan also does outreach ministries to the poorest areas of Manila on a weekly basis. As a nursing volunteer you would accompany the staff to these ministries, and help with health education teaching and assessments. There are social workers at the center that would help you obtain parental consent, and get the children to the proper care provider. You would be responsible for improving the child’s health and access to healthcare as well as working in coordinating a plan with the social worker as to how to improve these children’s lives. As you will soon learn there is never a simple solution to the problems these children face, but your time and dedication will help make their lives a little bit better. Housing is included near the facility, and ran by children that use to be in the shelter. To learn more about the organization please visit: www.bahaytuluyan.com.
Cost: $1000 USD for 1 month, $1800 2 months, $2700 3 months
Includes: Accommodation with a/c and wifi, transport to and from the airport, medical and education supplies for the trip, translator, social worker help
Not included: Airfare, Meals, transport around the city, weekend excursions at your leisure
Start Date: This is an ongoing opportunity.
**All funds can be raised through a facebook fundraiser, and are tax deductible
New Hope Cambodia: -PAUSED-
This organization will need a nurse volunteer to function as a school nurse. They see 1000 children a day that come through their supplemental school, and for many this is their only source of healthcare. What Nursing Beyond Borders hopes to accomplish with this position is to have the nurse establish a relationship with the local children’s hospital, and to facilitate healthcare for the children. While attending to daily ailments is helpful the children also need health education, and the families often need assistance getting their child the care they need. The parents spend most of their day either at work or caring for the house, and are not able to wait in the long lines at the municipal hospitals. We would like to focus on the children that may need dental or optometrist follow up and assist the parents in getting the children to see the correct healthcare provider. We would also like to ensure that the children are on a deworming schedule. To learn more about this organization please visit: www.newhopecambodia.com
Cost: $1100 USD (1 month), $1800 (2 months), +$600/month each additional after 2 months
Includes: Accommodation with a/c and wifi, transport to and from the airport, medical and education supplies for the trip, translator
Not included: Airfare, Meals, transport around the city, weekend excursions at your leisure
Start Date: This is an ongoing opportunity. Please note we will not send a volunteer here during national holidays as the children won’t be in school.
Migrant school: Bucerías, Mexico (4-12 weeks)
There is a migrant school in Mexico hoping to have a nurse come to provide free physicals to the children, and facilitate referrals to local providers. We have partnered with the local health clinic, Dr. Jose Perez, MD and Dr. Luis Guzman, DDS for free follow-up with these children. Once you provide the free health assessments you can prioritize which children need to see the providers. If you are interested in this opportunity please fill out an application. Local translator available most days, but moderate Spanish required.
Cost: $700 (1 month), $1,300 (2 months)
Includes: Accommodation with a/c, transport to and from the airport, medical supplies for the trip
Not included: Airfare, meals, transport around the city, weekend excursions at your leisure, travel insurance, emergency evacuation insurance
Start Date: This opportunity is available on a rolling basis excluding school holidays and over school breaks. Currently filling positions to start 9/2024 or later.
**updated 4/2024
Lao Friends Hospital for Children: Luang Prabang, Laos (2-6 months)
Lao Friends Hospital for Children (LFHC) is an acute care paediatric hospital situated on the campus of Luang Prabang Provincial Hospital in Lao PDR. Since 2015 LFHC is dedicated to providing high-quality and compassionate healthcare to the children in remote areas of Northern Laos. LFHC is a teaching hospital offering emergency, inpatient, outpatient and surgical services. Limited on-site radiology, pathology and pharmacy together with a homecare program complement these clinical activities. A major goal of this hospital is to promote the clinical learning and professional development of the local staff such that key positions within the hospital are progressively filled by a well-trained and dedicated local workforce.
The volunteer nurse will work with the Laos and international team, with the main responsibilities being clinical supervision and clinical education of Lao nurses. Shifts are 12 hours, rotating days and nights. Much of the teaching is done at the bedside although opportunities are available to deliver more formal teaching sessions are possible but will require approval from the Director of Nursing and Nursing Education team. The position is strongly clinical, helping provide real world application of theoretical nursing concepts and therefore requires volunteers who currently practice at the bedside or work in nursing education at their home facilities. The role will ideally require a minimum of 2-month commitment, longer commitments preferred and much appreciated. Pediatric nursing background required.
Cost: $700 (1 month), $450 for each additional month up to 6 months.
Includes: Accommodation with a/c, transport to and from the airport, visa fees, transport to and from hospital
Not included: Airfare, Meals, transport around the city, weekend excursions at your leisure
Start Date: This opportunity is available on a rolling basis, filling positions to begin 7/2024 of later
**Updated 4/2024